Best practice for publication of dataset as part of an external publication

[jucajuca]

Dear SEMIC,

There is an ongoing discussion about the best practice for the isReferencedBy property. The specification allows any rdf:ressource for this property.

Some data providers provide an IRI for this property, yet others think that this should be a foaf:Document (example below). There are even more possibilities and this makes the handling of the data difficult.

Do you have plans to specify what kind of data should be entered in this property? Or are there best practices regarding this?

PREFIX dcat:  <http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat#>
PREFIX dct:   <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>
PREFIX foaf:  <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
PREFIX owl:   <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>
PREFIX rdf:   <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX vcard: <http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#>

<http://data.europa.eu/88u/distribution/05abc443-f580-47c7-acae-9f5fd91bc7a8>
        rdf:type          dcat:Distribution;
        dct:accessRights  <http://data.jrc.ec.europa.eu/access-rights/no-limitations>;
        dct:description   "Country-specific GHG emission factors for electricity consumption"@en;
        dct:format        <http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/file-type/XLSX>;
        dct:identifier    "\"GHG Emission Factors for Electricity Consumption\"@en";
        dct:license       <http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/licence/CC_BY_4_0>;
        dct:title         "GHG Emission Factors for Electricity Consumption"@en;
        dct:type          <http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/distribution-type/DOWNLOADABLE_FILE>;
        dcat:downloadURL  <https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/public/JRC-OpenData/CoM/EmissionsFactorElectricity/CoM-Emission-factors-for-national-electricity-2024.xlsx> .

<http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/corporate-body/JRC>
        rdf:type       foaf:Organization;
        foaf:homepage  <https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/joint-research-centre>;
        foaf:name      "European Commission, Joint Research Centre"@en .

<http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/919df040-0252-4e4e-ad82-c054896e1641>
        rdf:type                   dcat:Dataset;
        <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator>
                "Bastos, Joana; Monforti-Ferrario, Fabio; Melica, Giulia";
        dct:accrualPeriodicity     <http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/BIENNIAL>;
        dct:bibliographicCitation  "Bastos, Joana;  Monforti-Ferrario, Fabio;  Melica, Giulia (2024): GHG Emission Factors for Electricity Consumption. European Commission, Joint Research Centre [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/919df040-0252-4e4e-ad82-c054896e1641";
        dct:creator                <http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/corporate-body/JRC>;
        dct:description            "In the context of EU and Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, the JRC provides energy related GHG emission factors. This dataset provides updated CoM emission factors for national electricity consumption (also referred to as National and European Emission Factors for Electricity - NEEFE).\n\nThree types of emission factors can be found in this dataset, following two approaches: an activity-based (IPCC) approach and a life-cycle (LC) approach. In the activity-based approach, (i) an emission factor is provided for CO2 emissions (in tonnes of CO2/MWh) only, and (ii) another for GHG emissions, namely CO2, CH4 and N2O (in tonnes of CO2-eq/MWh); in the LC approach (iii) an emission factor is provided accounting for GHG emissions, namely CO2, N2O and CH4 (in tonnes of CO2-eq/MWh), including upstream (supply chain) emissions.\n\nFurther details on the data and methodology used to calculate the emission factors presented in this version can be found in Bastos, Monforti-Ferrario and Melica (2024)."@en;
        dct:identifier             "http://data.europa.eu/89h/919df040-0252-4e4e-ad82-c054896e1641";
        dct:isPartOf               <https://data.jrc.ec.europa.eu/collection/id-00172>;
        dct:isReferencedBy         [ rdf:type                   foaf:Document;
                                     <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator>
                                             "BASTOS, JOANA; MONFORTI-FERRARIO, Fabio; MELICA, GIULIA";
                                     <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/publisher>
                                             "European Commission";
                                     dct:bibliographicCitation  "Bastos, J., Monforti-Ferrario, F. and Melica, G., GHG Emission Factors for Electricity Consumption, European Commission, 2024, JRC136340.";
                                     dct:issued                 "2024"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#gYear>;
                                     dct:title                  "GHG Emission Factors for Electricity Consumption"@en;
                                     owl:sameAs                 <https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC136340>
                                   ];
        dct:issued                 "2024-01-17"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date>;
        dct:language               <http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ENG>;
        dct:publisher              <http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/corporate-body/JRC>;
        dct:spatial                <https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/001> , <http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/continent/EUROPE>;
        dct:temporal               [ rdf:type                       dct:PeriodOfTime;
                                     <http://schema.org/endDate>    "2021-01-01"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date>;
                                     <http://schema.org/startDate>  "1990-01-01"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date>
                                   ];
        dct:title                  "GHG Emission Factors for Electricity Consumption"@en;
        dcat:contactPoint          [ rdf:type        vcard:Kind;
                                     vcard:hasEmail  <mailto:[email protected]>
                                   ];
        dcat:distribution          <http://data.europa.eu/88u/distribution/05abc443-f580-47c7-acae-9f5fd91bc7a8>;
        dcat:keyword               "electricity"@en , "emission factor"@en , "energy"@en , "GHG"@en , "greenhouse gas"@en , "emission inventory"@en;
        dcat:landingPage           <https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/energy-efficiency/urban-areas/covenant-mayors>;
        dcat:theme                 <http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/ENER> , <http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/ENVI> .